{"id":11958,"date":"2011-11-07T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2014-07-22T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:14:54","slug":"another-throwback-to-victorian-views-of-women-as-weak-and-in-need-of-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/another-throwback-to-victorian-views-of-women-as-weak-and-in-need-of-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Another throwback to Victorian views of women as weak and in need of protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/brendanoneill2\/100115868\/the-campaign-to-stamp-out-misogyny-online-echoes-victorian-efforts-to-protect-women-from-coarse-language\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a> thinks much better of women than those pushing for censorship (or worse):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the great curiosities of modern feminism is that the more radical the feminist is, the more likely she is to suffer fits of Victorian-style vapours upon hearing men use coarse language. Andrea Dworkin dedicated her life to stamping out what she called \u201chate speech\u201d aimed at women. The Slutwalks women campaigned against everything from \u201cverbal degradation\u201d to \u201ccome ons\u201d. And now, in another hilarious echo of the 19th-century notion that women need protecting from vulgar and foul speech, a collective of feminist bloggers has decided to \u201cStamp Out Misogyny Online\u201d. Their deceptively edgy demeanour, their use of the word \u201cstamp\u201d, cannot disguise the fact that they are the 21st-century equivalent of Victorian chaperones, determined to shield women\u2019s eyes and cover their ears lest they see or hear something upsetting.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Guardian<\/em>, these campaigners want to stamp out \u201chateful trolling\u201d by men &mdash; that is, they want an end to the misogynistic bile and spite that allegedly clogs up their email inboxes and internet discussion boards. Leaving aside the question of who exactly is supposed to do all this \u201cstamping out\u201d of heated speech &mdash; The state? Well, who else could do it? &mdash; the most striking thing about these fragile feminists\u2019 campaign is the way it elides very different forms of speech. So the <em>Guardian<\/em> report lumps together \u201cthreats of rape\u201d, which are of course serious, with \u201ccrude insults\u201d and \u201cunstinting ridicule\u201d, which are not that serious. If I had a penny for every time I was crudely insulted on the internet, labelled a prick, a toad, a shit, a moron, a wide-eyed member of a crazy communist cult, I\u2019d be relatively well-off. For better or worse, crudeness is part of the internet experience, and if you don\u2019t like it you can always read <em>The Lady<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neill thinks much better of women than those pushing for censorship (or worse): One of the great curiosities of modern feminism is that the more radical the feminist is, the more likely she is to suffer fits of Victorian-style vapours upon hearing men use coarse language. Andrea Dworkin dedicated her life to stamping out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,15],"tags":[459,198,987,186,58,322,43],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-equalrights","tag-feminism","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-nannystate","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-36S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26966,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}